Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham